The Faceless

The Faceless are a shadowy organization that influences much of the politics of the city. Their priority is not to control the city, but to ensure the safety and stability of the city and its people. They are less concerned with who is in power than with who in power will serve the people best. They act as Crowstead's protectors.

Its members possess the ability to take the faces of those they have killed. To do so, they must keep on hand a memento of their victim. A finger bone, a lock of hair, a scrap of flesh or jar of ash, things of that nature. When the Faceless are initiated, a ritual is performed that allows them to use these items to change their appearance to that of the victim. These faces are sent to the guild and are lent out as needed for jobs, but are returned once their purpose has been served.

They have a guild hall somewhere in the labyrinth of the old city, but its members are not required to live there. Most of them do not, in fact, preferring the freedom and anonymity of a solitary life. There's a network of couriers that ferries things between the guild and its members, as well as member to member. They are tongueless waifs, unnoticed in almost any context, able to slip away at a moment's notice through a system of tunnels throughout the city.

Most of the Faceless are information gatherers or those assigned to influence the politics of the city, but there is a substantial assassin presence as well. A small few are elves, though no one knows who they are or their numbers.

If guild rules are broken, the guild will exact vengeance.

The Faceless have come to an agreement with the King. The lives of the governmental candidates will not be taken by the hand of a Faceless Man, but this did not come without a price.